Friday, 18 December 2015

WATCH: 'Taniwha Tax' exposed on TV3

Lee Short explains the racket to HDPA

If you’re buying or building a house in Auckland—or contemplating doing yours
up—then don’t make another move until you’ve checked with your local iwi. Or
even up to thirteen local iwi, each of them with their hand out.

Some of you are already well aware of what is being called a Taniwha Tax, a
rule in Auckland’s new Unitary Plan requiring that doing anything more
aggressive than mowing your lawn within 100m or so of a place deemed “a site of
cultural significance” will require something called a Cultural Impact
Assessment" (appropriately enough, a CIA) along with all those approvals from all
those iwi.

And there are thousands of these sites right around Auckland!

So bravo to Lee Short from Democracy Action and
TV3’s Heather du Plessis-Allan for helping expose the racket on the telly last
night.

And ask yourself, how many mayoral candidates will be campaigning against it ... ?

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